The Department of Justice (DOJ) is fining a Charlottesville, Virginia, firm hundreds of thousands of dollars for hiring foreign workers on H-1B visas instead of qualified Americans in its latest settlement, thanks to former Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ Protecting U.S. Workers Initiative. The Justice Department announced this week it will fine CFA Institute (CFAI) more than […]
Foreign Workers See 4X the Job Growth of Americans in January…
For the month of January, foreign-born workers increased their labor participation rate year-to-year nearly nine times as much as native-born Americans. Likewise, foreign workers enjoyed nearly four times the job growth in January as American workers. While the foreign worker population increased about 3.4 percent year-to-year, the American worker population increased less than 0.9 percent […]
U.S. Workers Win Lost Wages After Being Discriminated Against in Favor of Foreigners by CO Corp….
Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s Department of Justice (DOJ) settled a case with a Colorado corporation that imported foreign workers instead of hiring Americans, winning the affected U.S. workers the money they had lost without those jobs. In a settlement with Crop Production Services, Inc. out of Loveland, Colorado, American workers who were passed on by […]
H-1B: It is NOT a Matter of Degree…
As any reader should know, I consider the biggest obstacle — indeed a danger — to genuine reform of the H-1B work visa program (other than lack of political will) is what I call the Intels Good, Infosyses Bad (IGIB) myth. The presumption there is that the Indian firms such as Infosys who hire H-1Bs […]
New Data on H-1B Visas Prove That IT Outsourcers Hire a Lot But Pay Little…
The Challenge to Trump’s Order? It’s a Lot About the Money by Byron York…
Judging by the briefs filed by Washington State, as well as statements made by its representatives, some of the state’s top priorities in challenging Trump are: 1) To ensure an uninterrupted supply of relatively low-wage H-1B foreign workers for Microsoft and other state businesses; 2) To ensure a continuing flow of high-tuition-paying foreign student visa […]
The Challenge To Trump’s Executive Order Limiting Visas is Motivated by “The Money”… Trillions of It…
Byron York has done some yeomans work analyzing the angles within the Trump executive order and temporary Visas suspension. York’s most recent outline on the monetary influence behind Washington State’s financial interest is directly on target. 1) To ensure an uninterrupted supply of relatively low-wage H-1B foreign workers for Microsoft and other state businesses; 2) […]